Invest Wisely: The Emotional Foundations For Learning - For Life

A DIR®/Floortime™ Workshop for Parents & Professionals

Presented by Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
Sponsored by Arts for Healing in conjunction with  Family First Early Intervention Project

This workshop is underwritten by a grant from the New Canaan Community Foundation and is free and open to the public.

 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

All families need a roadmap to help their children, develop the foundations necessary for learning and realizing their best potential for life. Social, emotional, language, and cognitive capacities are all learned through interactive relationships that involve emotional interchanges which help children learn to read and respond to emotional and social signals that enable them to organize their behavior, mood and impulses, and become logical and abstract thinkers. Children on the Autism Spectrum need the very same roadmap to develop the foundation which will support and sustain a fundamental sense of relatedness which includes warmth and security, regulation, engagement, emotional signaling and gesturing,shared social problem solving, the use of ideas in a meaningful and functional way and logical thinking and reasoning. Dr. Wieder will present the DIR® Model with special focus on emotional development and symbolic thinking.

 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Participants will learn the six building blocks (developmental capacities) which provide the foundation for learning and relating and how affect based interactions help children develop
2. Participants will learn how individual differences impact on development and intersect each other as a result of poor interconnectivity in the brain.
3. Participants will learn how symbols and symbolic play reflect emotional development and self-regulation

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SERENA WEIDER, Ph.D.

Dr. Wieder is a well known clinical psychologist who has pioneered the foremost approaches to diagnosing and treating infants and toddlers with infant mental health disorders and developmental challenge. She is the Co- Founder of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders (ICDL) Dr. Wieder publishes extensively including the recently published Engaging Autism, as well as The Child with Special Needs, and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, coauthored with Stanley Greenspan.  They also chaired and edited the recent ICDL Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children and the earlier Zero to Three Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy. Her research has focused on early intervention with high risk infants and families and she is currently conducting outcome studies on children with developmental and spectrum challenges. Dr. Wieder continues to practice in Maryland, lectures extensively both nationally and internationally, and provides consultation to clinical and educational settings starting DIR® programs.